Is God's love for us unconditional or is it dependent on our behaviour? And the answer is that the love that God poured into us when we were created remains with us throughout our lives, through death and into eternal life. And nobody and nothing, not even our own sinfulness can diminish God's love for us one iota. God's love for us is unconditional - it means what it says on the tin! ~Peter McVerry

If only we believed this what a difference it would make to our lives. We go around carrying so many heavy and negative burdens. We add to their weight by thinking that we are outside the circle of God's love. We feel we are outside because of stuff we have done, mistakes made or a feeling that God has let us seriously down somewhere. But God's circle of love goes way beyond our limitations and setbacks. We're headstrong and we hold tough. We're outside the circle and we feel there's no going back in. But today God says to each of us that we are within this circle of love. We've got to take a step forward and we've got to believe that God is on our side. Nobody and nothing can take that away from us.